St Paul'S Church House And Attached Parochial Rooms

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET 1208-1/4/242 (South side) No.40 St Paul's Church House and attached Parochial Rooms

GV II

Parochial rooms and house. c1870-80 with later additions and alterations. Probably by John Cundall. Reddish-brown brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Jacobean style. Irregular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, 2 to left in taller, wider range, then single-bay lower range and gable-ended bay, and with range to rear. Chamfered plinth. Buttresses to ends to ground floor. 2 entrances below 3rd. window: pair of ogeed arches with 3 steps to plank doors within hollow-chamfered surrounds. To left are 2 pairs of casement windows with cambered-arched heads in hollow-chamfered surrounds and with ogee-arched hoodmoulds and chamfered sills. To right a rectangular bay with 3-light mullion and transom windows. First floor: to left range a continuous chamfered sill band and pair of 2-light windows with plate tracery to heads and projecting double gable. Then a mullion window with casements in gable. The 2-light mullion and transom window with casements under hoodmould. Copings to gables. Tall star-shaped ridged stack and grouped right end stacks. Above entrance a plaque inscribed: 'SAINT PAUL'S / PAROCHIAL ROOMS / & CHURCH HOUSE.' Single tall-storey room to rear has 3 pairs of multi-pane casement windows under cambered heads. Pair of lancet windows to rear, now blocked. INTERIOR: retains some fireplaces; rear room has pilasters supporting roof beams. Staircase has turned balusters. HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was architect of the adjacent Church of St Paul (qv) and of the Town Hall, Parade (qv). Forms an interesting architectural group with Church of St Paul (qv).

Listing NGR: SP3222766291